My idea to solve NFL tie's

[Tripredacus]

I have two ideas for overtime. Both involve getting rid of the complicated ruleset they put into practice some years ago.

1. Go back to how it was before. Sudden death. No "everyone gets a turn" method. Who cares if there are ties or not.

2. People wanted the overtime rule to change because they hated the hurry up and kick a field goal way of winning games. So my idea is get rid of kickers AND punters. Flip a coin. opening kickoff to the other team. Teams cannot kick field goals or punt. Turnovers are on downs. First team to score a touchdown wins. If time expires, it is a tie.

Either I would not be against making it a short period, aka not a regular quarter.

And this is only for regular season games. Post season seems to have too much history involved where there is a game winning field goal to remove that rule to begin with. Such a huge change, the NFL should have retired the Super Bowl and started over with a version 2 or something.

[barrysloate]

The Browns are in overtime again, for the fourth time this season. Unbelievable!

[buymycards]

I agree with getting rid of kickers and punters. There is nothing less exciting than someone trying a last minute field goal.

[perezfan]

I guess I'm the first to say so, but I love the OP's idea. I find long field goals to be exciting, and it would be cool to see the contest go on, once both kickers exceeded the 50 yard mark. I think the record long field goal is still 63 yards, but someone may have broken that record. I bet the existing record would be broken if the NFL implemented this plan.

They will never actually do it, but I do love the idea. To me, the 59 yarder that beat the Browns, and the 63 yarder by Carolina (both to win their respective games) were exciting and amazing finishes.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by perezfan

I guess I'm the first to say so, but I love the OP's idea. I find long field goals to be exciting, and it would be cool to see the contest go on, once both kickers exceeded the 50 yard mark. I think the record long field goal is still 63 yards, but someone may have broken that record. I bet the existing record would be broken if the NFL implemented this plan.

They will never actually do it, but I do love the idea. To me, the 59 yarder that beat the Browns, and the 63 yarder by Carolina (both to win their respective games) were exciting and amazing finishes.

Thanks..plus as we see in OT..its a FG thats winning a lot of these games after almost 10 minutes are gone....